United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 3
III. Resolution respecting contracts for the printing of Congress.
Public documents printed in royal octavo page.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be directed, in making any future contract for the printing of Congress, to stipulate, and require, that the same, excepting only the bills, or when otherwise specially directed by either house, shall be done in royal octavo form, the size of the pages to be the same as those of the late edition of the laws of the United States; and that when any tables will not admit, with the use of a small type, of compression into that size, they shall be so printed as to fold conveniently into the volume.
Approved, March 3, 1817.